Flume Quotes

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible.

You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.

We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.

Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.